New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she..... More
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2001. Softcover. Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on..... More
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes Foreword Edito – Legible and Thus Legitimate? Reading and Blurring Gender in China, Today and Yesterday What is Obscenity? Morality and Modernity in 1920s China Knowing Male..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2015. Third Printing. Paperback. Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they..... More
New York: Aperture/ A New Images Book, 1988. Ann Beattie (introduction). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Rare. At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities;..... More
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